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When the Brock-Harrison party, fa those hoht the

transcontinental lines that J S Bucks, the second vice-president and

general er, had built up into a system, their first visit to the

West End aited with some uneasiness An iht take decided liberties hat Conductor O'Brien

ter department

But week after week followed the widely heralded announcement of the

purchase without the looked-for visit fro the

interval West End eneral superintendent doere

ade--with the exception of Conductor O'Brien "If I go, I

go," was all he said, and in enerally understood that the trainman that ran

the pay-cars and the swell mountain specials had in view a

superintendency on the New York Central On what he rested his

confidence in the opening no one certainly knew, though Pat Francis

claiiven to the

genial conductor by Chauncey M Depehen travelling special to the

coast under his charge

Be that as it may, when the West End was at last electrified by the

announcement that the Brock-Harrison syndicate train had already crossed

the Missouri and ht be expected any day, O'Brien with his usual luck

was detailed as one of the conductors to take charge of the visitors

The pang in the operating depart-delayed inspection

tour should have cos